Hans-Heinrich Sixt from Armin

Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin , wrongly also Sixt von Arnim , (born November 6, 1890 in Stettin , † April 1, 1952 in Krasnogorsk ) was a German lieutenant general .

Life

He was the son of General Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin and, like him, embarked on a military career. During the First World War he had troop commands and was last used as a captain in the staff of the 26th Infantry Division .

In the Reichswehr he rose to lieutenant colonel in 1932, in 1934 to colonel and in 1938 to major general . At the time of the attack on Poland , he became Chief of Staff of the 5th Army . On September 25, 1939, he took over as commander of the 95th Infantry Division . As such, he was promoted to lieutenant general on March 1, 1940. In July 1941 he gave the order to shoot around 200 people (mainly Jews who allegedly mistreated German soldiers) in the Shitomir area.

In early June 1942, he took over the 113th Infantry Division , which he led into the Battle of Stalingrad . Here he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on January 20, 1943 , during which he became a close confidante of Friedrich Paulus . He died in 1952 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union .

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on September 22, 1941
German cross in gold on September 6, 1942

literature

Hannes Heer : Women who serve in the Red Army are always to be shot. Confessions of German prisoners of war about their use on the Eastern Front. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-06-9 . Newly designed second print: Disadorno Edition, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941959-02-6 .
Veit Scherzer : 113th Infantry Division. Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-05-9 .

Individual evidence

^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, page 430, Volume 121 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1 , p. 119.
↑ M. Tiedemann: 60 right-wing radical lies . Goldmann Verlag, 2000
↑ Hannes Heer (Hrsg.): "Women are always to be shot if they are in the Red Army". Confessions of German prisoners of war about their use on the Eastern Front . Hamburg 1995, p. 16 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sixt from Armin, Hans-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1952
Place of death	Krasnogorsk

[1] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, page 430, Volume 121 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1 , p. 119.

[2] M. Tiedemann: 60 right-wing radical lies . Goldmann Verlag, 2000

[3] Hannes Heer (Hrsg.): "Women are always to be shot if they are in the Red Army". Confessions of German prisoners of war about their use on the Eastern Front . Hamburg 1995, p. 16 .